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Former Prime Minister and general scapegoat. Captain Terence O'Neill

... and wrong again In their treatment of Ireland over the centuries. Yeats was wrong when he wrote in his poem about the Easter Rising a terrible beauty is born. It was a terrible mediocrity and dullness that have now turned into a terrible ugliness, as ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1969
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 606 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SINN FEINERS ON THE CLYDE,

... of the British are cheered. At rooant meeting iectumr spoike of the brutal conduct of the British dmrifig the Dublin Easter weak rising. ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Hero DEV AS STATESMAN OR MACHIAVELLI Emma de Valera. By the Earl of Longford and Thomas P. O'Neill. (Hutchinson ..

... nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has nicer surrendered her soul?” De Valera took a flghting part In the Easter Rising in Dublin of 191 e, which is the subject of a blow-by-blow account by Mr. Coffey which loses nothing In the telling. It ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1970
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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SWIFT THE MAN TO TAME LEAHY

... l boxing out of Coventry. If we take previously known habits into account, Leahy will explode from his corner like an Easter Rising from the first bell and blow up like a bomb after about four rounds. Swift. on the other hand, which he has not, will rely ...

Published: Monday 10 December 1962
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

The last deterrent? Quite apart from the human tragedy involved and the very justifiable anger and revulsion it ..

... believes that it may not prove a deterrent but an incitement to acts of despair. The shooting of the 16 leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 did not deter the IR A and Sinn Fein then or later. But fixed 30-year minimum sentences, backed up by guarantees ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1975
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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MONKS AND THE ARMY

... STORY OF TREACHERY IRISH HISTORY.’* In speech Annacloy. Mr. Donovan, M.P., said when the true and full history of the Easter week rising last year came to be written, th.'re •would be such shocking revelations, disclosing the whole German plot to trap the ...

Published: Monday 15 October 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 246 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Birmingham Post, February 16, 1974 aVew fictibn

... themes of ACROSS THE BITTER SEA, a long novel of Irish life between the desperate landmarks of the Great Famine and the Easter Rising. Alice comes from a peasant family and her loyalties and love are divided between an ardent nationalist and a fine, sympathetic ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1974
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Remember, thou art but a vulgar twentieth-century democrat

... in the General week-end, not only in Post Office to shoot it out Ireland, but also in 1916 with professionals. by the Easter Rising cele- The man who wrote the brations, I found it diffi- memorable scenes based on cult to put Evelyn the evacuation of ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 642 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

New Novels

... Lavington is a selfconscious and rather adolescent caricature of smart, determined craziness. Set against the violence of the Easter Rising. ESTHER'S ALTAR concerns the Inhabitants of a Dublin tenement, to whom the blindfolding of the Virgin's statue on the altar ...

Published: Tuesday 27 October 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 667 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Radio 3

... Market Report. Study Session 6.30 p.m. Grammar of Jazz. 7.0 Using the Scene. Third Programme 7.30 p.m. Bpihodes of an Easter Rising. 11.15 The Bluer; Roll On. 11.5.1 Restructuring Britain. 9.10 Musica Viva 10.13 Open End. 11 0 News. 11.15 Market Trends ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 527 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

By ELIZABETH HARVEY

... poverty, incesto .indecencies and kindliness, as well: , as the looting, the rumours, thet:, indifference surrounding thi-, Easter Rising. One of the most; horrific scenes (the room * , screamedi is that when John'§*` , betrayer takes revenge on herself: ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1977
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1636 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

No Council of Ireland yet, Heath insists From JOHN LEWIS

... Provisional Sinn Fein were arrested in Dublin after entering the main Poet Office in O'Connell Street, centre of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule. The key passage in a joint statement said: The Prime Ministers were in agreement on the need to ...

Published: Tuesday 18 September 1973
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 665 | Page: 20 | Tags: none